Tiruvadavur Adigal Puranam - Tamil Text

The Tiruvadavur Adigal Puranam is a biography of the Tamil poet-saint Manikkavacagar. Along with the other three great poet-saints of Tamil Nadu, Appar, Tirujnanasambandhar and Sundarar, he played a major role in establishing the worship of Siva as the dominant religion at a time when the Jain and Buddhist religions were in the ascendant in South India. This book contains the Tamil text with English translation, extensive notes and translations of some of the hymns in whole or in part,accompanied by the Tamil text and translation of selected verses.